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On Malaria Struggle, Baboons And Humans Have Similar Stories To Tell

ScienceDaily (June 24, 2009) — Evolutionarily speaking, baboons may be our more distant cousins among primates. But when it comes to our experiences with malaria over the course of time, it seems the stories of our two species have followed very similar plots.

“It’s a nice example of how – in the vastness of the genome – the same gene was modified in the same way in two different species to produce the same kind of resistance,” says Greg Wray, director of the IGSP’s Center for Evolutionary Genomics. “That’s a pretty remarkable thing when you think of all the different ways malaria resistance might have evolved.”

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